The rush hour is over, the sun is setting, and this Fitchburg-bound MBTA commuter train has to itself the platforms at Boston's North Station.

An outbound MBTA commuter train rolls through the Hyde Park section of Boston on the Fairmount line behind an F40. At the time all trains on the MBTA's ex-New Haven lines took this alternate route... (more)

A solo Boston & Maine RDC running as a midday Woburn-Boston local swings off the two-mile Woburn Branch and onto the mainline at Winchester, MA. The MBTA dropped service on the branch in 1981 and ... (more)

Boston & Maine GP38-2 200 leads a mixed set of B&M and Maine Central power past the east wye at Ayer, MA.

On a splendid fall day, Boston & Maine GP18 1754 and friends lead train EDSP (East Deerfield to Springfield, MA) south on the Connecticut River Line at Mount Tom, MA.

In the mid-1980s, Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains exited Boston via the MBTA Fairmount branch as the NEC mainline between Back Bay and Forest Hills was relocated from an embankment to an open cut... (more)

In the early 1970s, Budd RDCs covered all Boston & Maine commuter runs out of North Station. This pair made up a South Acton local seen pulling into the Kendal Green station in the town of Weston.... (more)

A set of Boston & Maine RDCs that has just left the station at Lowell, MA, on its way to Boston hums past Lowell Tower on its way out of town.

Amid a frosting of snow, an MBTA commuter train made up of RDCs pushed by a GP9 on the rear rolls into the stop at Waltham, MA. The operator at Waltham Tower has no orders for the train, so the lo... (more)

A solo Penn Central RDC covering a midday branchline run between Boston and Needham Heights, MA, pauses at Needham Junction, in former New Haven territory. The operator has set the lower quadrant ... (more)

The former Boston & Maine roundhouse and service tracks comprising the Boston Engine Terminal stretch out behind an MBTA commuter train incoming from Lowell behind an FP-10. All of the railroad bu... (more)

In the mid-1980s the MBTA purchased six GP9s from the Burlington Northern for use on trains of depowered RDCs that did not require locomotive HEP. Still wearing GN green, MBTA 1921, a onetime NP u... (more)

After working the yard at Ayer, a westbound Boston & Maine freight behind a four-unit EMD lashup accelerates through Shirley, MA.

An eastbound Boston & Maine freight rolls through the station at Lowell, MA, behind a GP40-2/D&H GP38-2/U33B lashup. In the background an FP10-powered MBTA commuter train prepares to depart for Bo... (more)

MBTA FP10 1150 leads a trio of former New Haven coaches on a Boston-Framingham commuter train rolling through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. The wisps of steam coming from the cars sho... (more)